[nabs-l] Some Questions About Attending College

Helga Schreiber helga.schreiber at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 23 05:46:52 UTC 2013


Hi Misty,this is Helga. I just wanted to ask you, do you think I should scan my books by myself since I have own open book, and even though I'm totally blind? Also, does OCR is included with Open book? Just curious! Also, how can I scan books in Open book without doing it a page at a time? Would it be a way to do it faster with Open book? Just curious! I will really appreciate it, if you could give me some suggestions regarding this. Thanks and God bless! :)  

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> On Dec 23, 2013, at 12:30 AM, "Misty Dawn Bradley" <mistydbradley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Helga,
> It sounds like the DS office scanned the book in as a graphic rather than as text. In order to scan something into text, they have to use optical character recognition (OCR) software, such as ABBYY Fine Reader, Kurzweil, OpenBook, or ReadIris. I wonder if you can bring this up to them and tell them that you need it scanned into text and not a graphic? It surprises me that many DS offices are not knowledgable about putting things into accessible format and scanning properly, etc. They should be able to scan it with OCR, and this should correct the problem of the Microsoft Word document coming up as a picture, because scanning it as OCR using an OCR program will scan it and turn it into editable text that can be read by JAWS and will not be a picture.
> I hope this helps,
> Misty
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Helga Schreiber
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 12:20 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Some Questions About Attending College
> 
> Hi Ashley, this is Helga. I just wanted to ask you, how do I do that? I
> actually have an open book, but it's open book 8. Actually, I happen to have
> Open book 9, but I haven't the chance to install it on my laptop yet. Do I
> use Open book to scan my books? Just to let you know, my books have
> pictures, and how would I know if I'm scanning my books right, since I'm
> actually totally blind? Just curius! What would you do in this case? In
> fact, I told my DSS adviser that I would like to have my books in Word
> format, and she actually gave me my Literature book in Microsoft word
> format, but JAWS didn't read it, due to the fact that it was a picture. This
> is actually what  somebody told me when he saw the file. So in the end, my
> DSS adviser ended up giving me the book in PDF format. And as you know, I
> really don't like PDF because the words are attached together and it's very
> messy! And also I don't like PDF because whenever it comes to be a picture
> or some kind of image, JAWS always says graphic, and it's so hard to pass
> through it, and I actually get borred in trying reading the book. I don't
> know what to do about this situations. Sometimes I really get frustrated
> about them! That is why I would Like to have my books in Braille! My DSS
> office is not as large as others, but my adviser doesn't really coperate
> with me at all. Just to let you know, my first language is not English, and
> sometimes listening to books in audio is not great sometimes, since I don't
> know how the words are spell out. That is why I would like to have my book
> in Braille in order to follow along with the audio book. But not all the
> book only the chapters assign! Actually, my college has an Braille Embosser.
> And when I ask my adviser to print my book in Braille, but only the assign
> chapters of the book, she tells me that the will cost a lot of money! Thanks
> for listening to me! God bless! :)
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Ashley Bramlett
> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 11:41 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Some Questions About Attending College
> 
> Helga,
> Then scan them yourself or pay someone to do it.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Helga Schreiber
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 7:23 PM
> To: louvins at gmail.com ; National Association of BlindStudents mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Some Questions About Attending College
> 
> Hey Joshua, this is Helga. What would happen if my DSS office don't have a
> 
> Senta machine to scan my books? But I would like to have them scan! What
> should do about it? I really hate my books in PDF format. I'll really
> appreciate it, if you could give me some suggestions. Thanks and God bless!!
> :-) from my iPhone
> 
>> On Dec 21, 2013, at 2:58 PM, "Joshua Hendrickson" <louvins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Lizzy.  What I used to do, was purchase my textbook from the
>> college bookstore, and give the book and receipt to my disability
>> support office.  The receipt was to show proof of purchase.  Then my
>> disability support office would scan the book or books I needed using
>> kurzweil.  Then I would get the book on cd in mp3 format.  I know now
>> my DS office uses dolphin reader and can put the books in daisy
>> format.  I wouldn't be charged anything to have my DS office scan the
>> books I needed.  At least for me, my textbooks were scanned and
>> proofed very well.  Good luck.  I would also agree that if you're
>> looking for a notetaker for college the braille-sense u2 would be your
>> best bet.  I'm going to see if my REHAB office will get me one.
>> 
>>> On 12/21/13, lizzy <lizzym0827 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I just have a few more questions about text books to add to the
>>> discussion.  I know some of you said that your office of
>>> disabilities will scan them for you, but what have others done?
>>> Do you (personally) have to pay the person in disabilities scan
>>> for you or did they hire someone specifically to do this? Does
>>> anyone scan the books themselves using Kurzwhile? Is there a
>>> machine that can get the job done on its own? Is it usually a
>>> hassle to get the PDF versions of textbooks from publishers?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lizzy
>>> 
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